With less than one week until Opening Day on 1 April, we take a Bat Flips and Nerds look at the top performers in each position during Cactus and Grapefruit League play to give you the Spring Training All-Star Lineup.
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Tag: Spring Training
Colorado Rockies: Spring Training Battle
Colorado Rockies: First base Last season, first base in Colorado was occupied by the now-retired Daniel Murphy (29 games), Josh Fuentes (26 games), Ryan McMahon (12 games) and Drew Butera (5 games). Amazingly, they were not the worst team in
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NL EAST: Early Spring Training Battles
Hot on the heels of the excellent Bat flips and Nerds podcast previewing the NL East, here are a few things we have picked up over the first week of spring training. Atlanta Braves: The fifth rotation spot is up
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Ranking The Top 10 Spring Training Storylines
This week, pitchers and catchers flock to Arizona and Florida as baseball once again awakens from its deep, long slumber over winter. Nothing beats those sounds of pitches smacking gloves and sights of pristinely kept fields baking in the early-year
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Mets Lose Noah Syndergaard to Tommy John Surgery
Well, if you didnt think the situation regarding baseball could get a whole lot worse, it just did. It was announced on Tuesday evening that Mets starter Noah Syndergaard has torn his ulnar collateral ligament in his right arm and
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LA Dodgers Spring Training: Early Impressions
Ah… spring training. A chance to get a taste of the new season! Teams are testing out their lineups, pitchers are tinkering with new pitches, and it’s a chance to see some new faces from the minor leagues, fighting for
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Top performers from St. Louis Cardinals first spring training game
After a quiet offseason in St. Louis, there has been a lot of anticipation to see how this current roster does in the grapefruit league in 2020. But the top performers from the first spring training game are a mixture
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What I love about baseball
Spring is a wonderful time. It melts away the icy snows of winter and replaces it with green grass, the enveloping warmth of the sun and its fresh morning air. For hundreds of thousands of people around the world, spring
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Best Of British – Spring has sprung!
Steve Klein set up a blog called Bush League Ramble a couple of years ago and has been writing sporadically about baseball on there (and for a few other sites) ever since. His latest undertaking is Reading The Game, a
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“Don’t panic Mr Mainwaring!” – A Spring Training Guide
Spring Training has technically begun, you may have been seeing the phrase “Pitchers and Catchers” being floated around. This is when (wait for it) the pitchers and catchers report and begin their throwing and catching programs. They generally take a
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